Chinese factory owner abolishes holidays

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As jargon it is Orwellian, as a concept it is seductively barmy, and as the
new thing in Asian industrial policy it is plain terrifying: so brace
yourselves, workers, for the innovative genius of “holiday dismemberment”.

For this, in all its euphemistic spite, is the name of the scheme presented by
bosses to baffled employees at a Shanghai-based company days before China’s
May 2 national holiday.

While the rest of the country was preparing for a lazy, three-day weekend of
picnics, outings and relaxation, managers at the Shanghai business announced
to staff that they would be expected to come to